Wandering Crow Bookshop will open in downtown Statesville, N.C., later this summer, the Statesville Record & Landmark reported.
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The general-interest bookstore, at 108 W. Broad St., will carry new and used titles. Owner Sam La Flamme, who also has a photography studio in Statesville, said she wants to evoke a "cozy, moody forest cottage," and she told the Record & Landmark that along with books, she hopes the store "can offer a safe space and a sense of community."
She wants the bookstore to be a community meeting space and plans to host book clubs and other events. La Flamme is soliciting online feedback about events the community would like to attend and what books they want to see on the shelves. She wrote on Facebook that the response to the bookstore "has been overwhelming (in the best way)," and community members have donated more gently used books than "anything I imagined."
While La Flamme has not set an opening date, she hopes to have the store open in July.